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(c. 1832 - ?)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 29, he enlisted on 23 May 1861 on Long Island, NY, and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 22 June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and captured on 22 June 1864 (probably near Petersburg, VA), and released 28 April 1865. He mustered out with his Company in New York City on 14 July 1865.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as Charles Buck. His Antietam wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as Corporal Charles Buck.
Birth
c. 1832
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 896 [AotW citation 30174]